Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 3 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 4 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 5 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |